The untapped potential of seascape genomics in the North Pacific

Seascape genomics provides a powerful framework to evaluate the presence and strength of environmental pressures on marine organisms, as well forecast long term species stability under various perturbations. In highly productive North Pacific, forage fishes, key trophic links across ecosystems, are also contending with rapidly warming climate litany associated oceanographic changes (e.g., in salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, primary production, etc.). These can place substantial selective populations over space time. While several population studies have targeted fishes none formally analyzed interactions between genotype environment. However, when provide collection location information other critical data, it is possible supplement published genomic dataset data from existing public databases perform “ post hoc seascape genomics” analyses. reviewing literature, we find pertinent metadata (dates locations sample collection) rarely provided. We identify specific factors that may impede application methods Pacific. Finally, present an approach for supplementing reproducible way allow analysis, instances reported. Overall, our goal demonstrate – via literature review utility importance understanding health fish